Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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